Everyone is welcome to come celebrate and enjoy our time together in this meaningful and heartfelt way.

The worship and fellowship continues every Sunday from 9:00 to 11:00 am. The program includes meditation, service, a dharma talk with time for questions and answers and fellowship with the community.

Dana donations are always appreciated.

The Zen Community offers a class teaching beginning meditation from 8 to 9 AM on Sunday monring, May 6. The class is followed by our regular Sunday program from 9 to 11 AM.

Cost is $25

The Zen Community offers a one hour class from 8 to 9 am on Sunday morning, that provides more information on the nature of Zen training at the Zen Community of Oak Park. Some topics covered are the student-teacher relationship, services, sesshin retreats, precepts, koan study and zendo procedures.

Zen Practice 1 is a prerequisite. Cost is $25

Kumu June Tanoue and her Haumana present Ho'ike 2007 in New York City on Sunday, May 13 from 2 to 5 PM. The performance will take place at Chelsea Studios, 151 West 26th Street (between 6th & 7th Avenues), Studio #507.

"It takes so much to be a full human being that there are very few who have the enlightenment or the courage to pay the price. One has to abandon altogether the search for security and reach out to the risk of living with both arms. One has to embrace the world like a lover. One has to accept pain as a condition of existence. One has to court doubt and darkness as the cost of knowing. One needs a will stubborn in conflict, but apt always to total acceptance of every consequence of living and dying."

Commentary on the Kaddish by Morris L. West

Shadows and light live simultaneously. The light source upon which all shadows depend is our true nature, which is always timeless, unborn, and boundless. As Leonard Cohen wrote, "Ring the bells that still can ring. Forget your perfect offering. There is a crack, a crack in everything; that's how the light gets in."